Xenogears - It Began In Space

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diwPfzLgMuI

We open with a quote directly from the Book of Revelation. Xenogears is heavily inspired by Biblical tales and legends, and as such, isn't shy about its inspirations in the slightest.

A huge spaceship flies through the endless darkness of space...

But its journey is not as pleasant as it would seem. A bunch of overhead windows seal shut, as the ship's bridge room suddenly fills up with warning signs!

The operator at its helm tries everything in her power, but to no avail - whatever is infecting the ship is just too powerful to be handled by conventional tools. To her horror, she discovers that it's planning to hijack the ship and use it to attack the main planet!

The captain tries to contact the engine room to setup an emergency sealing. Unfortunately, said room has already been overtaken by worms!

The infection gets quite bold, and starts spamming the bridge terminals with an infamous Biblical phrase from the Genesis! This spooks the captain enough to order a general evacuation.

Unfortunately, the infection is having none of that, and unceremoniously blasts the escape ships in front of the captain's eyes!

Dejected, the captain pulls out a memento of his family, and takes some small comfort.

Then, in a last ditch effort, he blows up his own spaceship! Welp. He's pretty hardcore, if nothing else...

Somehow, a single lady survived the catastrophe. Without clothes, but hey. That's more than could be said for the passengers and crew of the spaceship.😆😩

She takes in the beautiful sight of the spaceship parts burning in the planet's atmosphere as its sun rises. End scene. Well, we're starting off quite dramatic, aren't we? Lol.

Join me next time as we completely switch perspectives and look at a quaint border village! It'll be fun, heh.

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